Serbian cultural park

"KDSP" was completed on June 5th, 2008. The marble cube and round concrete seats are located in the central square of Serbian Cultural Park. There is also a message from the garden in the square: "Only unity can save the Serbs". A pebble is embedded around the cube. This is a mosaic replica found in Landahl Monastery (Greek) and Peck and Zika Monastery (Serbian). A path winds south from the square. After a pleasant walk along Martin Luther King Avenue, the path ends in another square. This part of the garden is dedicated to the inventor, engineer and genius nikola tesla (1856- 1943). There are many busts of other celebrities in the garden. One of them was King Peter I, the father of Yugoslavia (1844- 192 1). The other is the poet Perthar II petrovich En Jie Gogos, bishop of the Orthodox Church and ruler of Montenegro (1813-1851).

Initially, Serbia and Croatia merged with Slovenia in Yugoslav Garden in 1932. 199 1 After the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav gardens were re-dedicated to Slovenia. The bust of Njegos was originally in the original garden, and later it was moved to the new Serbian garden.

The first Serb in Cleveland is believed to be lazare Krivokapic, a Montenegrin who settled here in 1893. However, most Serbs did not immigrate to Cleveland until the beginning of this century. These people are part of the large-scale immigration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The largest Serbs came from Lika (now a mountainous area in Croatia), while others came from Banja (now Banovina in central Croatia), Cordun (now north of Lika in central Croatia), Bak (now divided into Serbia and Hungary) and Banat (now located in western Romania, northeastern Serbia and southeastern Hungary). There are also quite a few Serbs from Dalmatia (an area on the east coast of Adriatic Sea, mainly located in today's Croatia, but smaller in Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Montenegro (before becoming a part of Yugoslavia). Go to E.40 north of superior street. Hamilton and St. Clare Street are Serbian communities. It is estimated that there were 1000 Serbs in Cleveland during the First World War. Another 700 Serbs came to Cleveland between 1949 and 1952, and many of them settled in East 55th Street and Broadway. Today, the number of settlements in this area is still decreasing. However, most Serbs have moved to the southwest suburb of Cleveland. From11960 s to11980 s, a large number of Serbs immigrated from the former Yugoslavia. Although Serbs account for a relatively small proportion of the population in this region, Serbian is still widely used, and cultural organizations and houses are still active.